Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171116

SFGTV Government Access Programming November 16, 2017

Right is an air quality map which gives you a a sense of their analysis and the dark blue areas are the highest concentration of par tick you lat matter and the brighter the grown the lower the concentration of the matter. The developer studyed the location of the residential areas near the garage and found that the project added 0. 5 or sorry,. 05 to the exiting background measure of 8. 5. And what this means is the projected volumes of cars in and out of the Retail Center garage is not a significant contribute er to air quality. Available for the public here on the table is a memo from the environmental consultant describing their study of the issues. Should you have questions on air quality, karen cone from the department of publichealth is here today and can share her insights on the matter. Ill conclude with the next step in the process as i mentioned were discussing the revised concept with five point and the team and anticipate receiving the formal sematic design application design in january after staff review, we will take that sematic design for Community Input and based on that schedule we dont anticipate being back before the commission until late spring of 2018. If we stick to that plan, we anticipate that the Retail Center itself would be open and summer 2021 along with adjacent Residential Projects across harn ey and inker son streets. The Retail Center opening will be the catalyst and anchor for all of the housing that is due to be delivered in this major phase of development and this concludes my presentation and members from the development team, the department of publichealth and ocii staff are available for questions after Public Comment, thank you very much. Great, thank you. Madam secretary, do you have a speaker. We have 15 speaker cards. Ok. What were going to do is there anybody else here that has not filled out a speaker card that would like to speak on this item. My name is shirley more and we were under the impression that we were on the agenda for this issue. We came before you on june 20th and we have been corresponding with this commission since june 20th and we appear on the agenda in july and we were not on the agenda in july and the meeting was canceled in august and september and i sent several emails to the Commission Secretary and a registered letter so it baffles me why we cannot be heard on this matter. Were giving you five minutes to do the presentation. On the agenda its supposed to be ten minutes. We asked to be exclusively on the agenda we have waited three hours to be heard and its practice with this developer and with the c. A. C. And ocii we are not being heard on these issues and this is a reason why were here and we are waited out for the last minute everybody leave and the issue of concerns about the residents not being included in this process and homeowners. This is an opportunity to be able to do that. Sir. This is Public Comment and so we would love. We asked to be on the agenda not on Public Comment. It wasnt on the agenda and we have to go by what is on the agenda so im giving you an opportunity to provide a presentation to us and you are getting a little bit more than what the general public would give so i ask. Commissioner, were asked to be on the agenda we should get more than what the it wasnt so what im telling you as we speak right now, we have what is on the agenda. What do we have to get to on the agenda . Do we need to get on our knees and kiss your ring. No need to kiss nothing im telling you you have an opportunity right now to present so were going to start the clock because we have to get this moving so wed love for the members of the public who are here to speak to speak on this item so. I am very disappointed in this and this process and this is exactly why were here, start your clock. We are here because the very same thing is happening in this chamber today, we have been ignored and we have been denied the opportunity to present our issues and now, we have had the lack of out reach from this ocii and weve had the lack of out reach in the community from the developer and we are the homeowners and the residents and were the stakeholders and all that the services that was mentioned here today it goes to the cbos and the disenfranchised people in the community and we have no problems with and that is glad and were giving them you service but were in the community too and the plan that they have outlined here today will impact our streets, our quality of life, and our ability to live in the community and impact our environmental health. Thats the reason why the homeowners in the community successfully fought against the implosion of the Health Environment and the garage that you are talking about, we had two meetings, weve had two meetings about this garage and one december 1st and one on april 27th, called by the community and hosted by the supervisor because this developer would not come to the community, the first time we heard this plan was in march 2016 on the fourth, we wrote a letter to the commission on march 13th and to ocii complaining about the lack of input in the Development Plan about the development and consequently and we also were concerned about they were trying to rush to get this approved and so surely enough, on may where is my document. On march 15th the ocii approved the amendment to the designs without out reach, that was the first meeting weve had regarding this program about the development to hear any plans and we got a brief description and that because the developer ran out the clock by giving us the same presentation and people like today, become disgruntled and get tired and they go home so we are not heard and i am dissatisfied with the way we are treated here because we are the taxpayers and the streets and people who are loosing their driveway access this impacts our community. We are a care zone and for this commission to sit here and say that we will give you the leeway in this and the residents should not be heard, that is just a egregious and im disappointed in that commissioner because we should have a hearing on this and so that people in the community can voice their concerns about being left out of the process and the property being impacted without say and he told us in our Office Meeting that the gillman greening project and the people were loosing their driveway access. Otherwise, we wouldnt have known that and we were, we heard about the underground garage in the Community Just by hear say, no one came to our community to say anything, the last planning document i got to notify us as we were then one to three hundred feet from the stadium because the implosion demolition process they had withdrawn that was january 2015. We do not get notice from anybody and i spoke to ms. Joy the environmental planner on this she gave me the most information about this project since the april 27th meeting at the school which we only got a general plan description what was going on and we still have not heard from ocii or anyone else for that matter and so when i was at the c. A. C. Meeting last night and i got up on Public Comment and i was treated very rudely by the chair when i got up to try and address the very issues so i dont know what is happening here or why we are being mistreated this way because we are the homeowners here, we are the homeowners and the taxpayers and we should be heard. Thank you. [applause] we have other speaker cards. Members of the public, please come to the podium in this order , dr. Raymond tomkins, michael therio, eloise paten. Yes, sir. I just want to get the opposite. Good afternoon or early evening. Its a long day. Im dr. Raymond thom kins some of you ive known for a period of time. Im start off first with the conditions that were talking about in bay view Hunters Point and then the document that was passed out also about par tick ulis. It was produced by the air district, its not something i wrote up or made up. Please turn to the next page. On page 19, bottom of the paragraph, in right here it clearly points out at the bottom of it the three cities that have been considered care zone that is west oakland, Life Expectancy is short by 11 years because of the port in the diesel trucks and richmond, california, life expect antsy is nine years short because of the Oil Refineries in bay view Hunters Point its 14 years less than someone living in russian hill neighborhood. Fourteen years. Its the worse in the bay area. Therefore, bay view has been considered and classified as a care zone so anything a developer does impacts the quality of life far more than if you were in russian hill. Lets look at the next document this one, it is the initial dust suppression system submitted by the developer and then please turn to the next page. Quickly, you will see the circle graph and their data is based upon standard from the San Francisco airport and it has nothing to do with bay view Hunters Point in San Mateo County im talking about science im tired of a lot of b. S. , bad science being pushed out and you can use that other acronym as well. We want to set up our own Research Weather station out there at Candlestick Point with over, its 100 feet off the ground, you have a copy of this document, this one here shows in may, top one please, each one of those lines flipping is 360 meaning there were 52 baby tornados out there the wind has a 22. 3 vary ant in wind direction thats in San Mateo County nothing to do and i asked at the last town hall meeting that mrs. Moore and the Homeowners Association organized and spoke to mr. Bonner in a very respectful manner, we both spoke cor dill to each other that we sit down with their engineers and discuss this matter because this is ridiculous. It is not what we teach students in college. Ive taught at u. C. Berkley college of engineering for five years Environmental Chemistry and ten years out at state as a associate research of clem and bio hem. Quickly, and thank you for allowing me a little bit of lead way. I then took out if you saw the channel 4 news, you saw me out by the Cement Factory with the air monitors 1700 which is the most active hand held par tick you lat counter in the world and on the far right its comparison between out there at candle stick point and where the work site is at behind the heel theres 100 increase of dust particles in the residents air, 100 increase and this is also behind bushes that have blocked and filtered the air and i use the same point where the air district and the developer used their monitors at. All right. What im saying here, very clearly, by putting a garage under someones bedroom window, im going to move it 25 feet over is not going to do anything that is ridiculous. If im already getting a hundred percent increase, a hundred percent increase, what its going to happen when the gas is hot and when the coming off the exhaust pipe and bay view and one point in the 90s and i was part of the team that reviewed it that women and baby Hunters Point had the highest Breast Cancer rate in the world and right now, according to the doctor, we have the highest pulmonary. I have to cut you off. Thank you. Im saying its adverse impact the garage needs to be moved out by the bay and not under someones bedroom window. Thank you. We want the jobs. Theres 2,000 people that live in that small area. Thank you for taking the time michael therrial. San Francisco Building and construction trades council. Its been a long time getting to this point and we still obviously have a little ways to go and we actually want for the considerable addition alex pens involved in undergrounding this parking its a difficult site which to do that you have to build a bathtub and its a lot nowhere expensive than building an aboveground garage there and to that degree lennar has been responsive to the needs of the community and i want to remind folks with regard to parking what was there before . And the traffic jams that occurred when a 49ers game let out when a concert let out, or when a giants game let out when the giants happened to be doing well and all too infrequently unfortunately. The council of traffic in this instance as youve seen from the developers presentation, would be to a negligible increase in air pollution and one that i think goes a long way towards addressing the concerns of the neighbors. Just one last thing before i stop, i would actually correct commissioner rosales, contractors do not pay union dues, they pay benefits and theyre part of a wage package which they would have to pay in any case under redevelopment project and the form of payment as benefits leads to a tax benefit of the contractor as opposed to paying those the entire thing in the form of wage so its a benefit for them to pay through benefits to union in a union context than a general wage so with that thank you. Next speaker. Eloise paten. Good afternoon commissioners. Im going to read a letter from a person that actually started very long time ago before any of you or myself was born working within the community and that is Shirley Jones, shes worked overcome not, project, shes spoken out on behalf of disenfranchised individuals and shes unable to be here today so she want medicine to read a statement for her. First let me say congratulations on your appointment, i am very glad to see you there and i wish you much success. My name is Shirley Jones and i am a long time resident of bay vow Hunters Point and over 60 years. Over these many years ive held many positions in this community from the first president of the southeast Facilities Commission to the first chair of the shipyard Advisory Committee and many things have changed but many things have remained the same. I had an opportunity to attend the shipyard Advisory Committee meetings last night and it was very well attended and it was great to see new faces as well as long time friends. In listening to the presentation its clear a lot of great things have occurred and the community has made wonderful suggestions and requested changes that lenna r five points have done. Theyve done a lot to accommodate Community Concerns well we dont always agree. I know at some point we must move forward to avoid loosing another opportunity. I stated last night that these big projects are really hard and not everyone is going to get what they want but we must all Work Together for the greater good of the community. I am especially happy promises made to the residents of Alice Griffith were kept and they were not disappointed and i live on i ngerson and im happy with the project on the parking garage and moving the requested entrances the shipyard projects is decades old and my concern is the loudest voices come across those now to the community and i respect and welcome everyones right to participate, i ask you and i commission to remember and hear those of us who have endured all of the hard times in this community, before these improvements were made and i have advocated for public and Affordable Housing and Community Jobs all of my life and any change or recommendations that limit are puts those commitments at risk is unacceptable and it is true low a blessing to wit ness all of those things come to reality and i know how hard you and the commissioners work to get it right and i support this project and support the needed changes to the plan to amount for the current realities in the community. This community deserves the best that the city has to offer and move this project forward. Sincerely, ms. Shirley jones bay view resident. Thank you. [applause] next speaker. Brian butler. Tony tafony, Linda Richardson. Good afternoon commissioners. After a few hours of waiting im glad to have a chance to address you all. I am a mechanic allen guinea graduate of u. C. Berkley who works with the bay area air quality district on bay view Hunters Point and as a result of it being a care community. You heard dr. Thomkins reference startleing statistics about bay view and the Community Health profile. Additionly there was a report released by golden gate law and green action for Health Environmental justice that basically reviewed the amount of enforcement and regulating of air quality in the community and it was discovered that they were being quite negligent. I guess my point in saying that is when you look at the air quality picture of bay view Hunters Point, a resident would hope and really need that development wouldnt say that the amount of pollution that we would increase is negligible, that seems unacceptable to me but in the state of california they were already dealing with those issues when the 49ers were there or the giants were there and this is a community thats dealing with 80 of the wastewater treated in the city at the Public Utilities commission where most of the concrete plant live and the legacy of radioactive contamination at the shipyard and so when you see statistics like the community, a child born today and 14 years less than anyone else, theres no supplies in my mind just as a scientist so when again i see this project , that isnt on the ground yet, when the Community Says hey, were right here can you not put th

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